Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 485545
bacula-client missing /var/lib/bacula and /var/run/bacula directories
Last modified: 2009-12-18 02:54:54 EST
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.2; Linux) KHTML/4.2.0 (like Gecko) Fedora/4.2.0-10.fc10 If bacula-client is installed without bacula-server (because that's on another host), the file daemon cannot be started because it's looking for the /var/lib/bacula directory which does not exist. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install bacula-client on a host that has no bacula packages installed already 2. I configured the file daemon, but this is probably not necessary to witness the problem. 3. Attempt to start the bacula-fd service; note the error. Actual Results: service bacula-fd start Starting bacula-fd: 13-Feb 21:24 myhost-fd: ERROR TERMINATION at util.c:709 Working Directory: "/var/lib/bacula" not found. Cannot continue. [FAILED] Expected Results: Daemon should start w/o errors, of course. bacula-client-2.4.4-1.fc10.i386 bacula-sysconfdir-2.4.4-1.fc10.i386 bacula-common-2.4.4-1.fc10.i386
For a work around, I did: mkdir -p /var/lib/bacula The daemon still wouldn't start however, but the error message was now gone. The new failure was rather silent, or at least I couldn't see it logged anywhere. So, I added '-d 125' to the init script to start it with debugging mode enabled. (BTW, the man page doesn't show this, but running the daemon with --help does. Also, the init script will attempt to source /etc/sysconfig/bacula-fd, but there's no way to append options as the init script is presently written.) Anyway, enabling the debugging mode revealed that I needed to also create /var/run/bacula. At that point, I was able to start the file daemon and reach it from the director.
This patch makes it possible provide additional start options via /etc/sysconfig/bacula-fd that is already being sourced. --- /etc/init.d/bacula-fd-orig 2009-02-13 22:36:30.000000000 -0500 +++ /etc/init.d/bacula-fd 2009-02-13 22:37:01.000000000 -0500 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ RETVAL=0 prog="bacula-fd" CONFIG="/etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf" -OPTS="-c $CONFIG" +OPTS="-c $CONFIG $OPTS" checkconf() { # Check if we still have our @@PLACEHOLDERS@@ in the config.
Thanks for the report. Looking into it.
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